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Publication details [#34618]

Wierzbicka, Anna. 2003. ‘Reasonable man’ and ‘reasonable doubt’: the English language, Anglo culture and Anglo-American law. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 10 (1) : 1–22.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | law | meaning

Place, Publisher

Birmingham University Press

ISBN

1350-1771

Annotation

This paper examines, in a historical and cultural perspective, the meaning of the phrases 'reasonable man' and 'reasonable doubt', which play an important role in Anglo-American law.